Josephine Crowell was a Canadian-born character actress. She appeared in vaudeville as early as 1879. On screen, she is best remembered for her dramatic portrayal of the mother in D.W. Griffith's Kansakunnan syntyminen (1915), her comedic performances in Harold Lloyd's Kaupungin nopein (1928) and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's Nurinkurin ja päinvastoin (1929). She also played a succession of queens and princesses in such films as Main Street (1923), Synti joka houkuttelee (1926), The King of Kings (1927) and Nauruihminen (1928).
